Insert for preserve tins for sausages



Sept. 8, 1931. H. FRICKE INSERT FOR PRESERVE TINS FOR SAUSAGES Filed Aug. 1, 1950 I'm M 51M Ealented Sept. 8, 1931 PATENT? OFFICE HERMANN ERICK-E, F HALBERSTADT, GERMANY INSERT FOR PRESERVE TINS FOR SAUSAGES Application filed August 1, 1930, Serial No.

This invention relates to an insert for preserve tins for sausages designed to maintain the sausages depressed into the water contained in the tin, so that they do not project from the surface of the water. The discshaped insert has a slot extending up to the centre of the disc, short slots branching from this main slot into different directions. At either side of the long slot a hole for a finger is provided by means of which the disc can be compressed into cone shape. As soon as the fingers are removed from the holes the disc tends to return into the initial plane position and bears resiliently against the inner wall of the tin, so that it can assume any position in the tin which is given to it. A further advantage of the insert disc according to the invention consists in that, when the tin is being opened, the sausages cannot be damaged by the tin opener as, owing to the funnel shape of the insert in the tin, the outer edge of the insert, even if this tin at the centre bears against the lid of the tin, is always situated underneath the peripheral strip of the lid in which the tin opener works.

Two embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings.

7 Fig. 1 is a top plan view of the preserve tin.

Fig. 2 shows in top plan view a modified construction of the preserve tin.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-8 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 shows in top plan view the compressed insert. v

Fig. 5 is a vertical section through a pre serve tin with compressed insert disc.

The insert consists of a. sheet metal disc at having a slot 6 extending to the centre. From the inner end of this slot 6 short radial slots 0 are branched in different directions as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

In order that the insert disc a may be compressed to be inserted into the preserve tin holes for fingers are arranged in the disc,

one at either side of the slot 7). Each hole I consists of a sickle-shaped flap d curved in upward direction and of a concave flap e downwardly inclined opposite said sickleso shaped flap as shown in Figs. 1 and 4.. The

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finger holes are pressed the one towards the other in order to insert the insert disc into the preserve tin, so that said disc assumes a funnel shape. When the fingers are removed from the finger holes the disc stretches some what, so that its edge bears against the inner wall of the preserve tin, the disc remaining otherwise in the funnel shape. The sausages in the preserve tin are therefore securely held in their position so that they cannot rise to above the surface of the liquid in the tin.

I claim An insert for preserve tins for sausages, consisting of a sheet metal disc having a slot extending to the centre and extended by slots branching from its inner end in difl'erent directions, adapted to allow said disc to be bent in funnel-shape, and two finger holes, one at either side of said central slot for the compression of the disc into funnel shape prior to the inserting into the tin, said disc retaining its inverted funnel shape when in position in the tin.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

HERMANN FRIGKE. 

